British Game Generator

Welcome to the British Game Generator. This silly little tool lets you generate ideas for computer games based on the many British computer games that came out during the 80's. To generate an idea for a new British computer game, click on Generate Game [[Generate Game]]

(set:$genreArray to (array:"An isometric puzzle game", "An arcade game", "A text adventure", "An adventure game", "A top-down action game", "A simulator", "A single-screen arcade game", "A 3D maze game", "A driving action game", "A slash 'em up", "An edutainment title", "A rocks'n'diamonds style game", "A horizontal shooter", "A first-person flight game", "A flick-screen action game", "An action game with platforming elements", "A classic shooter game", "An arcade adventure", "A strategy game", "A side-view beat 'em up", "A puzzle solving game", "A strategy/role-playing game hybrid", "A platformer")) (set:$choice to (random:1,23)) (set:$gameGenre to $genreArray's $choice) (set:$gameCharacterArray to (array:"an egg", "a round man", "Robocop", "a yak", "a mercenary", "a barbarian", "a deity", "a chicken", "a pineapple", "an egg-like creature", "a car park attendant", "a wire-frame spaceship", "a mole", "a spy", "a fish", "a molecule", "80's band Frankie Goes to Hollywood", "a knight", "a chubby Batman", "Jimmy White", "a wizard", "Bilbo Baggins", "a squad of droids", "a person controlling a drilling machine", "a cat", "a worm", "a monstrous warrior-servant", "a rockstar", "an astronaut", "an alien with a big nose", "a miner", "a ninja", "a pumpkin", "a mutant warrior", "a student at an academy", "an alien space fighter", "an advanced computer", "a group of space marine-like soldiers", "a pilot of the future", "an orb", "a jumping ball", "an obsolete Airborne Ground Attack Vehicle", "a small green guy", "an off-brand Doctor from Doctor Who", "an off-brand James Bond", "a robotic mudskipper", "a retired captain of a starship", "a silly space invader", "a space sheep", "an evil and wicked toddler", "a resistance fighter", "a group of space raiders", "an astral projection", "Wally", "a ball-shaped craft", "Robin Hood", "a man in pyjamas", "a magic knight", "agyroscope", "an explorer", "a pirate", "an ace pilot and neurosurgeon", "a dustman", "an enthusiastic worker", "an aspiring boss of a criminal organization", "a man with a jetpack", "an elastic curve", "a goofy-looking robot", "a darts player", "Jocky Wilson", "the last human alive", "a Flunky", "a round guy with a tube nose", "a fat worm", "blue blob with legs", "a techno cop", "Eddie Kidd", "a fancy lad", "Jonah Barrington", "an owl", "a ball of air", "a billiards professional")) (set:$choice to (random:1,82)) (set:$gameCharacter to $gameCharacterArray's $choice)(set:$gameLocationArray to (array:"a parking garage", "a treasure island", "an alien mothership", "a radioactive maze", "a school", "an abandoned mine", "a land where dinosaurs still roam", "an abandoned city", "steampunk Victorian era England", "an underground world", "a grocery store", "the moon", "a fish-and-chip shop", "a mine", "your attic", "a school", "post-nuclear earth", "a jungle", "a haunted mansion", "a fantasy world", "a witch's castle", "80’s Liverpool", "Castle Frankenstein", "a neon vector grid", "a mansion", "the ocean", "a robot city", "the 25th century", "a moonbase", "a computer chip factory", "a theme park", "some distant future", "an advanced cybernetic aircraft carrier", "a Spectrum's architecture", "the year 2011", "Blackpool", "the future where cats have become very valuable", "an ice palace", "a car park", "an alien planet", "a dungeon")) (set:$choice to (random:1,41)) (set:$gameLocation to $gameLocationArray's $choice) (set:$gameTaskArray to (array:"collect all the coins", "must clean the trash", "fight ants", "must get Excalibur", "eat as much food as possible", "must defeat Dracula", "must walk across every floor tile", "need to hunt a werewolf", "mow the yard", "manage your football team", "need to collect all the eggs", "must graduate school", "avoid vector shapes", "must get out of Britain", "need to avoid robots", "must cure your Lycanthropy", "assign parking tickets", "need to tidy up after a party", "need to solve a murder", "must defeat a witch", "must travel through time to find your father's murderer", "need to collect all the Chupa Chups", "must win a violent futuristic sport tournament", "must win a billiards tournament", "need to fight your way to the exit", "must survive and find an escape", "must stop the moon from exploding", "must raise your combat rating to Elite", "must win a decathlon", "need to free the world from perpetual winter", "must outsmart a rival spy", "fight off-brand Daleks", "rescue five pulsies who were trapped in a maze", "gather body parts and assemble a monster", "must have your followers conquer an enemy force", "shoot glowing vector shapes", "build a time machine", "your mission is to build a series of resource, factory, and defensive bases", "prevent the planet from exploding", "must defuse a bomb in the House of Parliament", "must take control of coal production", "must win a Judo tournament", "collect energy crystals", "need to blow up eight towers", "must destroy a robot army", "rescue llamas", "hit rats with a hammer", "must rescue your partner", "collect bags of money", "shoot at gigantic mutant camels", "must rescue your scientist grandfather", "avoid hammers falling from the sky", "collect all the bombs", "must find the code to a safe", "must deactivate all the robots", "must stop an evil wizard", "solve riddles", "need to destroy the central computer and escape", "need to knock globes into others of the same colour", "reflect a beam of light to an exit", "must rescue as many fairies as possible", "must win a darts tournament", "must do routine jobs for the British Royal Family", "stop a deadly virus", "make tasty hamburgers", "play rounds of squash", "must win the Olympics", "prove you are a complete bastard", "must sail a boat", "go skiing", "climb a giant beanstalk", "search for the holy grail", "win a pop quiz", "avenge the death of your best friend", "are a contestant in a tv game show", "taken through all stages of life", "collect dots", "clean windows", "avoid smelling poo", "pass a British driving test", "go on a summer holiday", "cause as much trouble without being penalized for it", "must collect all the parts of your spaceship")) (set:$choice to (random:1,83)) (set:$gameTask to $gameTaskArray's $choice) (set:$computerArray to (array:"ZX Spectrum", "Amiga", "BBC Micro", "Amstrad CPC", "ORIC-1", "Dragon 32", "VIC-20", "Commodore 64", "Acorn Electron", "Atari ST")) (set:$choice to (random:1,10)) (set:$gameComputer to $computerArray's $choice) (set:$featureArray to (array:"Has unlicensed samples.", "Features parallax scrolling.", "Comes with a bonus cassette tape.", "There was also a Christmas-themed variant.", "Cover art by Roger Dean.", "Features an innovative 3-D effect.", "Soundtrack by Ron Hubbard.", "Soundtrack by Tim Follin.", "Based on a children’s tv show.", "Comes with feelies.", "Prequel to the previous entry.", "It’s a sequel.", "A fast loader.", "Features digitized speech.", "Features a celebrity endorsement.", "Created by a single developer", "Created by two siblings", "Loosely based on a hit tv show", "Comes with copy protection", "A rushed conversion", "A sequel was planned but never released", "Ports to other computers were canceled", "Received positive reviews in British game magazines.", "Received negative reviews in British game magazines.")) (set:$choice to (random:1,24)) (set:$gameFeature to $featureArray's $choice)  On the store shelf you see: $gameGenre where you play as $gameCharacter in $gameLocation and $gameTask. $gameFeature Available on the $gameComputer [[Generate Game]]